Tim Thomas
@timofnewbury.bsky.social
European 🇪🇺 Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex. Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer. 🔸 Elsewhere: @timofnewbury + blogger.com/profile/02224647895500543757
Malzfabrik Buir - spotted from the train from Düren to Köln at Buir station
It’s a pity there is no easy way by train from Aachen to Düsseldorf today. Changes needed at Düren and Kōln.
Arriving Liège Guillemins by train (view from upper deck)
On the 11.30 SNCB train from Leuven to Welkenraedt 🇧🇪 via Liège for connection to Aachen 🇩🇪
Cloudy with some blue sky in Leuven. First 2 row solve for a while. Wordle 1,873 2/6 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Good luck with your puzzles
This varied walk explores At Anne’s Head, west of Milford Haven in #Pembrokeshire There are superb coastal views and dramatic cliffs. It starts from an area known as Kete. Interesting geology and WWII history. See www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/Pemb...
Last night in Leuven 🇧🇪 Spotted on walk back to the station.
Wednesday's front page: ‘Private firms may face ban on profiteering to make care homes cheaper’ Read the full story: trib.al/a2hDFHh #tomorrowspaperstoday
"OIL GIANTS MAKE $90BN FROM PRICE SURGE AS CLIMATE CRISIS ENGULFS EUROPE" @DPCarrington.bsky.social / #JillianAmbrose for @TheGuardian.com Oil giants made over $90billion in 3 months from soaring prices driven by the #Iran conflict amid #Europe's climate crisis. #TheGuardian #TomorrowsPapersToday
El Rago Et Son Ensemble Typique - Bambino-Blue [Benin, West Africa, Jazz/Folk] (1968) https://redd.it/80wmni https://youtu.be/R5AENQGxLfc
El Rago Et Son Ensemble Typique - Bambino-Blue [Benin, West Africa, Jazz/Folk] (1968)
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Bar billiards player in Ouden Tijd, Leuven mistook me for a musician that he admired - Thé Lau - we had a nice chat after his game - sorry to disappoint him! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A...
Thé Lau - Wikipedia
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De Metafoor, Leuven 🇧🇪 a favourite bar in Belgium. Cheers!
Good tunes at De Metafoor (Leuven) 🇧🇪 - (Don’t fear) The Reaper - Back in the USSR - Cheers!
Widely distributed. Find a copy of Berkshire CAMRA Pubs & Pints magazine on the beer bookshelf at MALZ, Leuven 🇧🇪
Shared for #PewsDay St Mary Magdalene's Church is a redundant Anglican church standing close to the river on the north bank of the Thames, near the village of Boveney, Buckinghamshire
Tim Thomas@timofnewbury.bsky.social · 3mo agoSt Mary Magdalene Church, Boveney, by the river Thames
Listening to the blues in De Blauwe Kater, Leuven. 🇧🇪 Cheers!
Arrived Brussels Midi 20 mins late. Now on the SNCB train to Leuven. View of Eurostar Paris train from top deck.
Eurostar trains are delayed as one tunnel under the Channel is currently closed.
More news! We’re honoured to be contributing a track to the forthcoming Syd Barrett tribute album. All proceeds going to mental health charities. Some amazing names on there so we hope we’ve done the song justice! Out October to tie in with World Mental Health day burningshed.com/syd-barrett_...
Rereading Farewell my Lovely / Raymond Chandler after watching it on BBC iPlayer. Chapter 2 [The Bouncer] … had a battered face … It was scarred, flattened, thickened, chequered, and welted. It was a face that had nothing to fear. Everything had been done to it that anybody could think of.
The barrel vault of London St. Pancras station. Then and Now.
3/3 The Krasny Bor facility is one of the larger ones in Wildberries portfolio, & the biggest in Leningrad/St Petersburg area. Ukraine's "Dr One" has visited 15 Wildberries warehouses recently, to deliver a prescription of #UkraineSanctions. 13 of the 15 are virtually destroyed.